Kyle Ervin certainly saved the best for last on Tuesday night as his buzzer-beater jumper propelled the Birmingham Groves boys basketball past Bloomfiled Hills Andover for a 75-73 win.

Inbounding the ball from along the sideline in the offensive zone with 4.9 seconds to go, Ervin received a pass just to the left of the key with 2 seconds to go and nailed the basket with the buzzer sounding immediately after.

"I knew that the play was designed for me," Ervin said. "But it's all my teammates ... That's who I play with, I practice with. We're like a family I knew i could count on them to make a good pass. If the ball touches my hands, I think I'm supposed to score."

In all, it was an average night for Ervin - in the litteral sense. Averaging 21 points and 10 rebounds coming in, Ervin finished with exactly those numbers on the night. Of course, his last two points were far from average as Groves remains in full control of the OAA Gold and extends its win streak to eight games.

"It's nice to see our guys come together," Groves coach Scott Sheckell said. "We started 0-4. This is our eighth in a row and we didn't lose in January. We've played some pretty good teams along the way. I'm just proud of our guys that our sticking together and pulling for each other."

Andover held just a 66-64 lead with 3:39 to play before letting up a 9-3 run to fall behind by four with 1:54 left. Andover (7-4) managed to tie the game 73-73 with 17 seconds left but, once again, let Groves get an answer.

"That's a game that we should have won," Andover coach Jeff Rubin said. "I felt that we gave that game away. We didn't rebound, we missed foul shots down the stretch. We didn't execute."

Unfortunately for Andover, the game will go down as yet another close loss. Andover has four losses by a combined eight points.

"You think by this point of the season, we would have a little bit more toughness to us down the stretch. But, Groves made some winning plays and we didn't."

The rest of the game was not much different, as the game saw five ties and eight lead changes. Andover held just a four-point lead at the half and heading into the fourth quarter but couldn't hang on.

Things took a turn for the worse for Andover with 2:23 to play as its leading scorer senior Zachary Smoler fouled out with 19 points.